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Use of spoligotyping and large sequence polymorphisms to study the population structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a cohort study of consecutive smear-positive tuberculosis cases in The Gambia.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2009
de Jong Bouke C, Antonio Martin, Awine Timothy, Ogungbemi Kunle, de Jong Ype P, Gagneux Sebastien, DeRiemer Kathryn, Zozio Thierry, Rastogi Nalin, Borgdorff Martien, Hill Philip C, Adegbola Richard A
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium africanum, first described in Senegal in 1968, causes up to half of the smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases in West Africa, but it has not been found in other geographical areas except among recent West African migrants. The reasons for the geographic restriction of M. africanum are unknown. We used molecular tools to determine the population structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
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